They are Vandy plain and simple. They still suck. If they scare you then just stay home for the post season.

Locked On Vols with no Vol representation?

Hopefully he stays healthy and can carry the vols into a championship, thats the best reward of all

Not only should he be a Walker finalist, I think he should have chance at SEC Player of the Year. Sampson will forever be a legend in big orange country. I would be extatic if he came back next year. I hope he goes beastmode against Vandy and leads us to a Natty.

Spencer McLaughlin being the perfect example of why contrarians are the most annoying people on the planet to listen to. Anyone with a functioning frontal lobe can see the SEC is top to bottom the strongest conference in the country. The big10 is top heavy. The big12 is a joke. The ACC has a few solid teams, the best of which struggles to field a defense each week. How is this even still a conversation? Hell give me 6-5 Florida over Penn State and Indiana. We do this every year. The big10 plays nobody, they’re overrated, they get exposed in the postseason, rinse and repeat. I’m sure the rightful cycle will continue this year.

Only Texas, where’s Tennessee and Georgia???

Where was Eric Cain?

I hope that every LINEMAN, TIGHT END, RECEIVER, and COACH take this to heart and absolutely dominate this entire playoff and I hope that Coaches moving forward understand that this so called non biased Playoff committee apparently has a thing for watching dominance in that they like to see you beat your opponent by 50 and have a bunch of yards and stats against teams that are outmatched. So I feel we owe it to the Boys to go out and let it rip and play like BIG ORANGE SAVAGES AND NEVER LOOK BACK AGAIN. They want Dominance then go give them hell and make them have to ACKNOWLEDGE THIS GREAT STORIED PROGRAM. GBO/VFL

Ohio State also had 2 RedZone trips that resulted in nothing they could have beat them by 35 ish points

What a freaking joke that Doak Walker Committee is! Sampson certainly deserves to be on that list! The guy set all kinds of records for the Vols! Seems like the Vols get zero respect!

All the awards have been infiltrated by bias, especially the Heisman. The ones who hand out these awards should be ashamed.

How can leading rusher in best conference be left out ? And SEC is best conference , I know acc and big 10 have more teams in current playoff , but only because ole miss and others play each other , period look at NFL draft choices to who best conference is

He’s not a finalist because he’s playing for the Volz. The media hates us and so does the committee.

I will say it again....they HATE us

To leave Sampson off this list is a disgrace. Playing in the SEC translates into playing with the big boys.

Can't compare vandy with Georgia. It's a 1 man show .Tennessee has something to prove and also to get a home game.

I'm almost more excited to see Bishop and Lewis get more reps next Year. Lewis is just a beast and no matter when they put him in he has such enthusiasm you can see it on TV. Love watching him run straight over defense players

ALL THROUGH MY LIFETIME,TENNESSEE HAS ALWAYS GOT INGNORED ON ANY OF THE COLLEGE AWARDS FOR THE,BEST PLAYERS

1,307 yards, 5.7 ypc and 22 TDs. He'll likely end up with 1500-1550 yards. He could be a little more productive as a receiver, but he's become an excellent every down back.. not being on that award list is a head scratcher

It's simple, have any other rb run in sec and let's see what happens. Our lowest team plays against these backs and they'll not put up 100 yds

The SEC only has 2 1000 yard rushers . The other power conferences and the mountain west all have atleast 4. Try to tell me yards aren’t harder to come by in the SEC.

Cainer mispronounces every name pretty much every show and is trippin over fumbling Estrella lol EC you should have your own Key and Peel skit on sec players 😂

Sampson is illusive to even the spectator. He just magically gets yards and touchdowns! He’s excellent!!! Definitely snubbed, like most Tennessee talent. Peyton. Johnny majors, it goes way back.

Such B.S. NCAA payback for UT beating their ass in Court !!!! Just my honest opinion.

Apparently the Johnny Majors curse lives on. Tennessee never will have a Heisman Trophy winner or get a fair shake from any subjective decision for anything. Still waiting for the next defensive player to win the Heisman. The only way Tennessee will ever get anything is go undefeated. And just to safe I’d suggest never letting your foot off the gas.

Are we really surprised?

Is it run by ESPN? The same people that screwed Peyton Manning out of the Heisman.

Tenn. Alumni- Home of John Darden. I hope Tenn can do what my High school did in the playoffs beat the#3,7,2 on the road. Now we play the #1.

Imagine Tennessee hosts Georgia😳

Well manning and Johnny majors were screwed from the heisman also . The hate for our team is unreal . Go Vols

The more I hear and see the more I believe the NCAA truly has a Vendetta against us. And u know they have discussions with these committees. I believe the vendetta is directly related to the fact that we cut the head off the snake in Greenville Tennessee. Now they’re going to block us every chance they get. Dylan Sampson ur amazing ur appreciated and you will always be remembered by this fan base I promise you. God Bless and Go Vols!!!!!

He's not even in a top 10 rb prospect in the draft... might make more money to come back next year. Probably just wishful thinking

It doesn’t matter. Vols are trash away from home. They are losing in the first round of course this is assuming they beat vandy. Unlikely

Just go play in the no defense conference and get awards!😂-Sampson plays against top defenses every week!The others play elites none with Jenty plays none!

Morgan Wallen was also passed up on the Voice !! And we all know how that turned out !

Doak Walker committee... SHAME. SHAME. SHAME.

It's time for Coach H to stand up at these press conferences and start to sell the University of Tennessee and it's players. I get being conservative and playing things close to the vest but the media has now changed. Go Vols

The disrespect is wild….

He would be there if CJH didn’t pull him out so much against UTEP. He could have added 5-6 tds instead of just 1. Lewis and Davis vultured 4, if I remember correctly.

I hope he has a field day against Vandy

It's disgusting that Sampson isn't getting the recognition he deserves. He should either win or be tied at the final for the Doak and at least in NY for the Joke trophy. I truly hope he uses this as fuel. He seems the kind of guy to use adversity to his advantage. 200 and at least 2 tuddies vs Little Brother this weekend

I'm not surprised I haven't given any of these awards credit. When they screwed Payton out of the Heisman Trophy I was done caring about any of these awards.

Texas vs A&M is the game to watch.

Eric...LEARN THIS.....I don't know why, but the media Hates Tennessee unless they are in Tennessee!!!!

Dylan got snubbed that’s always how they do Tennessee

No chance it stays like it is today. I doubt we move up two spots but if we win Saturday I think someone ahead of us will falter. I’d imagine Tennessee ends up an 8 seed. But I’m not wearing orange colored glasses. It’s not impossible we could win a couple games in the playoffs if we make it out of Nashville but this year I think that’s our ceiling. Hope I’m wrong.

Blame Tennessee's coaching staff for not allowing him to run up his stats on the cupcake schools. It's all about the numbers, same with the QB stats for the Heisman.

Go beat Vandy! GBO 🍊🏈

That’s the national media and sports media! Not even on the list? I guess I’m a little biased but man, are you kidding me! GBO 🍊🏈🧡

Nobody likes Tennessee. Never have, never will. All we can do is win and put players in pros and HOF. Screw awards.